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"Find out who it is before you unlock the door," she said He nodded She heard him at the door, then a murmur of voices--Dale's voice and another's--"Won't you come in for a few minutes? Oh, thank you" She relaxed

The door opened; it was Dale "How lovely she looks in that evening wrap!" thought Miss Cornelia But how tired, too I wish I kneas worrying her

She smiled "Aren't you back early, Dale?"

Dale threw off her wrap and stood for aback into its smooth, smart bob, hair ruffled by the wind

"I was tired," she said, sinking into a chair

"Not worried about anything?" Miss Cornelia's eyes were sharp

"No," said Dale without conviction, "but I've come here to be company for you and I don't want to run away all the ti paper and looked at it without apparently seeing it Miss Cornelia heard voices in the hall--a man's voice--affable--"How have you been, Billy?"--Billy's voice in answer, "Very well, sir"

"Who's out there, Dale?" she queried

Dale looked up fro," she said in a listless voice "He brought me over from the club; I asked hi his coat" She rose, threw the paper aside, came over and kissed Miss Cornelia suddenly and passionately--then before Miss Cornelia, a little startled, could return the kiss, went over and sat on the settee by the fireplace near the door of the billiard room

Miss Cornelia turned to her with a thousand questions on her tongue, but before she could ask any of the in Doctor Wells

As she shook hands with the Doctor, Miss Cornelia observed hi man, in his early forties, apparently built for success, should be content with the comparative rustication of his local practice That shrewd, rather aquiline face, with its keen gray eyes, would have found itself ht--there was just that touch of ruthlessness about it which makes or mars a captain in the world's affairs She found herself

"Oh, I'm very well, Doctor, thank you Well, many people at the country club?"

"Not very many," he said, with a shake of his head "This failure of the Union Bank has knocked a good h"

"Just how did it happen?" Miss Cornelia was " The Doctor took out his cigarette case "The cashier, a young chap named Bailey, looted the bank to the tune of over a million"